VAST Perspectives
9 Strong Use Cases for Hyperconverged Infrastructure
The benefits of hyperconverged infrastructure make it a good fit for many different data center projects. It can lower your total cost of ownership, increase the productivity of your IT team, and help you bring cloud’s advantages into the data center. Use cases where...
Cloud Security Needs to Protect Against Old Threats As Well As New Ones
In order to protect your cloud environment, it’s important to know the kinds of threats your cloud will face. Some attacks are old and familiar, just transferred to the new environment; others take advantage of vulnerabilities introduced by the cloud’s shared...
Reduce the Risks of Disaster Recovery with DRaaS
Disaster recovery (DR) is a critical function, but because it’s so rarely invoked, it’s difficult to get it right. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offers a highly automated DR solution that reduces the risk of making mistakes during a crisis. ...
Infrastructure as Code
Code or administrators, that is the question.
Should You Go Cloud Native?
Cloud promises many opportunities for improving the agility of your IT team and the scalability of your IT systems. It’s easier to take advantage of these opportunities if you refactor your systems to be cloud native when you execute your cloud migration. However,...
Design an AWS Monitoring Strategy with These Tools
Moving your systems into cloud doesn’t mean surrendering control over them. Amazon Web Services provides a number of tools to help you monitor your AWS infrastructure. AWS Tools for Cloud Performance Monitoring In order to take advantage of the rapid provisioning...
It Takes People and Tools to Apply Data Governance in the Cloud
Demands for data privacy continue to grow. GDPR is in effect, California is about to impose its own privacy regulations, and other states as well as the federal government are reviewing potential new laws. These demands make data governance a key function for every...
Countdown to Backup Success
You may have heard of the 3-2-1 backup strategy. But you need to count higher than three to really have a solid backup solution. Are 3-2-1 Backups Done? The 3-2-1 strategy is shorthand for an approach to backups that includes the following: • 3 total copies of your...
Build a High-Performance Cloud on Google Cloud Platform
Using cloud allows you to build a customized, low-cost environment to meet your workloads' needs. This is true when your application needs a high-performance computing (HPC) environment, as well as for applications with more routine performance demands. While all...
Your Cloud Migration Approach Affects Your Long-Term Cloud Costs
The decisions you make as you plan your cloud migration have a long-term impact on both the effectiveness of your cloud technology and how much your cloud will cost you. You’ll start feeling those cloud costs as soon as you start your migration. The options for...
